Image from Google Jackets

American transcendentalism : a history / Philip F. Gura.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xv, 365 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0809016443 (pbk.)
  • 9780809016440 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 141.30973 GUR 22
Contents:
Introduction: locating the "like-minded" -- Searching the scriptures -- Reinvigorating a faith -- Transcendentalism emergent -- Religious combustion -- Centripetal forces and centrifugal motion -- Heaven on earth -- Varieties of transcendentalism -- Self and society -- The inward turn -- Free religion and the dream of a common humanity -- Toward the genteel tradition.
Summary: A comprehensive history of American transcendentalism which originated with a number of nineteenth-century intellectuals including Ralph Waldo Emerson, and examines their philosophical and religious roots in Europe and opposition to slavery.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Cover image Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Vol info URL Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds Item hold queue priority Course reserves
Book - Borrowing Central Library Lower Floor Baccah 141.30973 GUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000043667
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-343) and index.

Introduction: locating the "like-minded" -- Searching the scriptures -- Reinvigorating a faith -- Transcendentalism emergent -- Religious combustion -- Centripetal forces and centrifugal motion -- Heaven on earth -- Varieties of transcendentalism -- Self and society -- The inward turn -- Free religion and the dream of a common humanity -- Toward the genteel tradition.

A comprehensive history of American transcendentalism which originated with a number of nineteenth-century intellectuals including Ralph Waldo Emerson, and examines their philosophical and religious roots in Europe and opposition to slavery.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Novelist Select

© BUE Library 2020